San Pedro de Merida No. 3 / San Pedro de Mérida
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view of church interior - plan
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Image Source: drawing in Palol [after Almagro & A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
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view of font - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a drawing in Palol [after A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
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view of font - plan and section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: drawing in Palol [after A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font - section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a drawing in Palol [after A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 07587PED
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Templo de San Pedro de Mérida
Country Name: Spain
Location: Badajoz, Extremadura
Directions to Site: Located near Mérida capital
Font Location in Church: In a baptistery room, in the NE of the nave
Century and Period: 6th century(late?), Early Christian? / Visigothic?
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Palol (1967) as a rectangular sunken font of a somewhat irregular shape, since one of the arms is longer than the other and it has a rounded end; it was discovered in the 1960s in the site of the Visigothic church at San Pedro de Mérida; the well is also rectangular with four steep steps on each side and a narrow well; Palol (ibid.) suggests that the finish would have been opus signinum over the concrete of stone core [two other rectangular sunken fonts: Dehesa de la Cocosa, in Mérida, and Necrópolis de San Fructuoso, in Tarragona]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: rectangular (sunken font)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967
Palol, Pedro de, Arte paleocristiano en España, Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, [1969?]